US1419598A - Table lamp - Google Patents

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S. J. ZELAZO.

TABLE LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED APR.22, I920.

L%19 598|, Patented June 13, 1922;.

I UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

STANLEY J. ZELAZO, OI ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS.

TABLE LAMP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STANLEY J. ZELAZO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Adams, in the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Table Lamp, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ornamental table lamps and the primary object of the invention is to provide a' device which may be employed to utilize ordinary spherlcal globes, such as are employed on porch lights and street lights, and be suitably ornamented and constructed to provide an ornamental and useful table lamp.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a supporting member adapted to receive an electric light and which will include a bracket member adapted to support a spherical light globe which may be decorated with suitable ornamental decorations and which may if desired be painted or stained to simulate the globe illustrating the world. The invention also contemplates the provision of a novel supporting means for the lamp which will permit the globe to be readily removed and replaced as .desired.

In the drawings illustrating the preferred embodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device constructed in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a detail section illustrating the interior construction of the support, and

Figure 3 is a detail view of a portion of the structure.

Referring to the drawings in which like reference numerals indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the supporting standard 1 may be of any preferred type and construction and in the present instance includes the base plate 2, and the pedestal 3. For the purposes of providing a more elaborate ornamental eflect itmay be found expedient to replace the pedestal with a statute of Hercules or other ornamental figure to serve as the support for the device. The upper end of the pedestal is provided with a bracket which includes the oppositely extending arms 4 and 5. The arm 4 is connected with a circular plate 6 which has an annular rim or flange 7 of a size adapted to conveniently embrace the usual flange on the open end of the light globes generally employed for outdoor lllumination. These globes are usually from seven to ten inches Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 13, 1922, Application filed April 22, 1920. Serial BNO. 375,755.

in diameter and except for the open end are spherical in contour. When the globe is mounted in position on the plate 6 and embraced by the flange 7 it is held in an angular position as shown in Fig. 1 by the opposite bracket arm 8 which is hinged asat 9 to the end of the arm 5. The bracket arm 8 terminates with a pintle 9 which is received in a small socket element 10 engaged with the surface of the globe 11 at a point diametrically opposite the center of the plate 6.

Thus the globe is properly held in position against accidental or casual displacement and it may be conveniently located as desired. When it is desired to remove the globe it is simply necessary to swing the member 8 on the hinge 9 after releasing the catch 12 which acts to hold the arm 8 and arm 5 in proper relatively fixed positions when the device is in use.

Projecting through the center of the plate 6 is a sleeve member which serves to receive the incandescent lamp 13 being screw threaded for this purpose. This sleeve member also receives the socket member 14 which has the electric wire lead 15 extending to the source of current. A pull chain 16 is also provided whereby the lamp 13 may be illuminated or extinguished as desired. It will be obvious that the globe 11 may be decorated in any preferred manner but for the purposes of the specific structure described, the globe should be decorated to simulate the world and in this manner makes a very desirable students lobe of the world which will be of a size a out equal to the size of the ordinary students globe of the world.

WVhat is claimed is 1. A device of the character described comprising a supporting pedestal having oppositely extending arms at its upper end, a circular plate carried by one of the arms and provided with an annular flange at its edge, the opposite arm having a hinge member connected thereto terminating in a pintle,

means to hold the hinged member in operative position whereby the said pintle will be disposed diametrically opposite the center of the said plate, and a spherical globe member having its open end lodged on the plate and embraced by the said flange thereof whereby the said pintle may engage the globe at a point diametrically opposite its open end.

2. An ornamental table lamp comprising a supporting pedestal having oppositely extending curved arms, a circular plate carried by one of the arms having an annular flange at its edge, a hinged bracket arm carried by of the globe at a point diametrically opposite its open end.

3. Thecombination with a spherical globe having a relatively small open end, of a support having oppositely projecting arms at its upper end, a circular plate carriedby one of the arms and supporting the said open end of the globe, a lamp socket having an incandescentlamp mounted therein, the said lamp socket being disposed at the center of the said plate'whereby the incandescent lamp will be projected into the center of the said globe, and movable means carried by the other arm to removably engage the center of the said globe for holding 1t in tegral with one of said arms and provided with an annular flange at its edge, the opposite arm having a bracket member connected thereto terminating in a pintle positioned in alignment with the circular plate,- a spherical g obe having an open end seated upon the circular plate and embraced by the said 'flange' whereby the said pintle will en-' gagethe globe at a point diametrically opposite its open end, a sleeve formed inte ral and projecting from both sides of said p ate, a'n-incandescent lamp fitted within the inner sleeve within the globe, and an electric switch fitted within the opposite end of said sleeve.

In testimony whereof, I have aflixed my signature in the presence of two. witnesses.

. STANLEY J. ZELAZO. Witnesses:

JOHN SIARA, JOHN KOZA.

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